History Manga / MaidenRose

* [[BonusMaterial Omake]]: Uses the RuleOfFunny with Taki as a {{Moe}} {{cat|Girl}}, Klaus as a wolf, a {{Tank|Goodness}}[[JustForPun -cum-]]tentacles and BlackComedyRape.

* {{Bishonen}}: Averted with Klaus. Taki is a straight example.

* MixAndMatch: BoysLove + DuringTheWar + LoveHurts + {{Adventure|Series}}/{{Action|Series}}

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[AllLovingHero Taki truly cares about his soldiers]] and they love and respect him, the {{child|Soldiers}}ren look up to him and want to be like him, etc.

* ConflictingLoyalty: Klaus has to give up his country, his family, and all his privileges to be Taki's knight. Taki wishes to be the [[HundredPercentAdorationRating beloved]] and respected {{leader}} of his division and he also wants Klaus.

* BackToBackBadasses: During a suprise nighttime training exercise, Taki and Klaus end up the only students still not defeated. The moment they decide they to take on all the attackers together they pull out their knives and stand back-to-back, laying the foundation for their future BattleCouple status.

* BerserkButton: Do not hurt and mock Klaus if you don't want Taki's [[ImpaledPalm sword though your hand]].

* BigEntrance: Hasebe is about to kill Klaus when suddenly his sword is shattered. Following this is a two page spread of an ill Taki standing in the doorway, sporting a DeathGlare, katana drawn, wearing a BadassLongcoat as a CoatCape blowing in the DramaticWind against a stream of white light, with some flower petals floating around for good measure. The shocked looks from the others are pretty well warranted at that point.

* BodyguardCrush: Klaus' relationship with Taki can be seen as this. Klaus often bows down to Taki, and has expressed his desire to protect and defend the country with him.

* BroomstickQuarterstaff: A bunch of Luckenwalde students show up armed with brooms and buckets to haze Taki on his first day. By the time we see any action, it's Taki holding the broom and [[CurbStompBattle mopping the floor with his attackers]].

* ConflictingLoyalty: Klaus has to give up his country, his family, all his privilege to be Taki's knight. Taki wishes to be the [[HundredPercentAdorationRating beloved]] and respected {{leader}} of his division and he also wants Klaus.

* CultureClash: There are some not so irrelevant things in Taki's country that Klaus doesn't know about. Taki also got into trouble in the MilitaryAcademy because he didn't know the customs there.

* DeathGlare: Taki has made a speciality of it.
* DividedWeFall: Eurote and some aristocrats from Taki's country are so determined to get rid of Taki because he's second-in-line to the throne that their in-fighting becomes a great asset to the Western Alliance who they are currently at war with.

* EnemyCivilWar: Inverted. The Western Alliance happily find themselves getting a breather while Eurote and certain elements from Taki's country focus on eliminating Taki, the one commanding the front against the Western Alliance. They note how monumentally stupid and fortunate this is for them, and launch a full strike.

* FemmeFatale: Duchess Theodora is darkly beautiful, ruthless and she has a [[PrettyInMink pretty coat]].

* FunctionalAddict: Klaus exhibits the {{Deconstructed|Trope}} form of this trope. He is implied to have been addicted to morphine in the past, so that once he is injured and needs it to help enhance his performance it's not very effective and he has to increase dosages. As one would expect, he doesn't stop using it after that and it's still up in the air whether he'll be able to curb the addiction again or not.

* GreaterNeedThanMine: [[spoiler: Azusa did this after he and Klaus was found at the riverbank. Probably because Klaus' wound was more serious (there is a difference between being shot on the leg and the chest), Klaus' rank is higher, he didn't abandon Azusa on the train and Azusa thinks his duty as a soldier is more important than his life anyway.]]

* HellYesMoment: Klaus has one of these during the night exercise at Luckenwalde. Early on Taki is knocked unconcious and Klaus carries him away from the combat, his trauma from losing his former comrades surfacing as he just waits for Taki to wake up. When Taki finally comes to he acts cold and aloof as usual and they go over how bad their situation is, made worse when they hear the barking of dogs. Then Taki stands up, pulls out his knife, and the following conversation ensues:

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Taki's sword is probably a katana. It certainly looks like one... well, [[EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana what else could it be]]? It's a ''[[AbsurdlySharpBlade really]]'' CoolSword and he can use it quite [[MasterSwordsman skillfully]].

* LensFlareCensor: Sometimes used during the sex scenes. Occasionally BarbieDollAnatomy is also present, but for example in the 'sex on the train' chapter there isn't any censoring.

* NastyParty: Princess Theodora's introduction has her eating a nice dinner with her cabinet ministers on their private train. Or rather, she's eating, and they're are lying dead on the table after ingesting a little too much poison.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Given how much asskicking there is in the manga these show up fairly often. One of the more memorable ones is after Berkut recovers from the train being derailed by two antitank missiles and comments that Taki must be insane to have done that. Cue Taki standing on top of the wreckage with his katana replying, "and yet, I still haven't managed to finish you off, have I?"

* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: There isn't any significant difference in how the male characters dress, but this trope is used with the two more important women. Claudia's clothes aren't revealing, she doesn't wear make up and she is kind, understanding, one of the ''very'' few genuinely pure characters. Duchess Theodora has [[{{Stripperiffic}} skimpy clothes]], [[HighHeelPower high heels]], she uses lipstick, and she is a cruel and dangerous antagonist.

* ShroudedInMyth: As mythical as the relationship between Taki and Klaus can seem at times, things get even more vague when you start working outward from them (ie. Taki's mother, Klaus' ancestors, the wolfman and the founders of Reizen). It also occurs within the story to Klaus in examples like the nature of the Reizen sacred ground, which is incredibly important to Taki and his countrymen and yet no one can adequately explain to Klaus.

* SnoopingLittleKid: While everyone is in a fluster about the train about to invade the territory, cadet Yamamoto notices a suspicious guy and convinces his friends to follow him. The discover the man is a spy passing information to Eurote, and the boys' efforts end up revealing that there are in fact a ''lot'' of spies in their ranks adding to the chaos.

* TrainStationGoodbye: Averted against all expectation by taking out the 'goodbye' bit, and essentially starting the story.
* TraintopBattle: After jumping on top of the train Azusa asks why they are going in through the last car and fighting their way to the engine room rather then running across the top straight there. Klaus {{lampshades}} the impracticality of this tactic as their footsteps would give away their location and they'd just be target practice.

* UnequalPairing: Taki is the master, Klaus is his knight.

* UptownGirl: Gender-inverted and zigzagged. Taki is second-in-line to the throne in his own country. When Taki and Klaus first meet Klaus is of the nobility. Eventually Klaus' family lose that status because the monarchy is dissolved when the country falls to the Western Alliance, placing him as a wealthy middle class. Later, when Klaus becomes Taki's knight, he has to renounce his country, his name and status and becomes the lowest of the low in Taki's country. Their romance has been developing through all of this, but really comes into force after Klaus has lost his upper-class status.

* [[WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Hit A Woman]]: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] At first Taki commented on how chivalrous Berkut was because he asked his associate to take care of Duchess Theodora while he fights with Taki, but then Taki attacked her without any qualms and probably would have killed her if he was not stopped by his own soldiers.

* ShowerOfLove: Well, Klaus and Taki did have sex (at least half of it) in the shower, but that sure wasn't an example of GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex.

* SpitTrailKiss

* SwordPlant: Taki